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Learn Swift by Building Applications

You're reading from Learn Swift by Building Applications Explore Swift programming through iOS app development

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463920

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Giordano Scalzo

Emil Atanasov

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Swift Basics – Variables and Functions FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Familiar with Xcode and Playgrounds

3. Creating a Minimal Mobile App

4. Structures, Classes, and Inheritance

5. Adding Interactivity to Your First App

6. How to Use Data Structures, OOP, and Protocols

7. Developing a Simple Weather App

8. Introducing CocoaPods and Project Dependencies

9. Improving a Version of a Weather App

10. Building an Instagram-Like App

11. Instagram-Like App Continued

12. Contributing to an Open Source Project

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Playground

Before diving into a mobile project, we will start with a special type of project that will help us master the Swift language. These projects are a cool place to experiment, without the extra hassle of setting up a real mobile project. We can experiment with real mobile functions, without even working on a full mobile project. Playground projects are a really nice place to prototype algorithms or UI, and simply to have small building blocks, ready and fully tested, before plugging them into a mobile app.

What is a playground?

Straight from the file generated by Xcode:

"Playground – noun: a place where people can play."

Playground is a simple project, which can be used to practice, experiment, prototype and play with code and the underlying OS. It's easy to write some code to sketch an idea or to clarify a concept. The best thing is that you can mix text (markup) with code. Also, it's possible to use the native functions that are specific for the platform (for example iOS). This makes...

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Authors (2)

Giordano Scalzo

Giordano Scalzo

Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of ZX Spectrum. He has worked in Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, and in a ton of other languages that he has forgotten the names of. After years of backend development, over the past 10 years, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps—apps that he wrote for clients, enterprise applications, or on his own. He is currently a Tech Lead Consultant in London, where he leads mobile digital transformations through his company, Effective Code Ltd.

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Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov is an IT consultant who has extensive experience with mobile technologies. He started working in the field of mobile development in 2006. He runs his own contracting and consulting company, serving clients from around the world—Appose Studio Inc. He is an MSc graduate from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria. He has been a contractor for several large companies in the US and UK, serving variously as team leader, project manager, iOS developer, and Android developer.

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